How should we understand conflicts over identity, theological boundaries, and orthodoxy within religious communities and across religious, national, and racial…
American evangelicals, Islam, and defining the “other”
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Bridging normative worlds: Religion, politics, and the rule of law
Around the world today, and especially in Euro-Atlantic contexts, we often hear the thesis that a resurgence of religion as…
Religion(s) and the rule of law: Let us compare mythologies
The glittering and hurting days are almost done Then let us compare mythologies I have learned my elaborate lie of…
Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers
In 2008 or 2009, at an early stage of an extensive research program on criminal defense lawyers in China, I…
Competing narratives of the “us” in “our culture and heritage”
Although 19.3 million people reported a Christian affiliation in the 2021 Canadian census (representing just over half of the Canadian…
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
This forum draws together scholars of religion, nationalism, and secularism with research expertise in North America, the Middle East, Europe,…
Asian American Buddhists: To heathenry and beyond
As a demographic that continues to be marked with the scarlet letter of heathenry, Asian American Buddhists demonstrate the nuanced…
US politics beyond white conservatives: Asian American evangelicals and the religiously unaffiliated
A focus on Asian Americans opens new avenues of study when it comes to race, religion, and politics. I focus…
No one’s model minority
Race and religion create powerful and intertwined systems of othering, and attending to the experiences of Asian Americans and Asians…
Capabilities of old women
The old women cannot be relegated to the past or overcome. Their relationship to scholarship is asymmetrical: the old women’s…